The Eastern rebuild was going to be a simple fix, replace the internal leaking, under floor mounted, gas tank and fix a small spongy spot in the
floor. Upon cutting into the floor it very quickly turned into much more. This boat was made very cheaply and hacked together with scraps and inferior NON
marine products by the factory, no marine lumber here, cdx plywood and pine untreated framing 2x4's. From scrap wood, pine framing lumber, car mats, nails and poor
construction, along with the lack of a bilge pump and drain plug turned everything into major rot
factory. The boat is a 22' Eastern, 1988 vintage, and there was only 1 owner before Tunuts (a family member) and is 100% original. No modification, changes or
additions have ever been made to the boat from the day it left the factory, heck not even a dang cup holder, in fact the motor that came with the boat when new, a 115 Merc
of the same vintage, had the original spark plugs and has no more the 200 hours total.

Fuel Tank Update

A new fuel tank was ordered by Tunuts through Eastern themselves, in the beginning of December. Last week it came in at Eastern but they said
we could not buy it now because they had none in stock and they just got an order for a boat. They informed us they
would order us another one that would take another month or more to come in. This is as bad as customer service can get! The order was canceled and we ordered a
tank through another dealer and it is expected to arrive in less then 3 days. It's a good thing we had
the common sense to have Eastern order us a new tank
before we needed it, because they would not have had one in stock for themselves, something does not sound quite right when you do not carry any inventory of a
custom item like this.

The 115 Mercury Motor

The motor has been gone through, all fuel lines have
been changed to ethanol safe lines, the carburetors have been gone through along
with all filters on the motor. The lower end has been removed and the
water pump has been replaced along with all seals in the entire lower end.
The trim cylinders have been fixed as their seals were also leaking. New
sparkplugs and a new ignition pack was installed as only 2 cylinders were
showing spark when tested. The lower end is still off at the moment
because we are waiting to hook up the controls up first so the shift linkage can
be set properly.

Please note that when this boat was originally "built" the Eastern boat company was owned and run by
different owners then they currently have. The new Eastern boats are completely different and the build quality is far superior,
so we were told. Remember this boat was slapped together 23+ years ago.

All photos were taken with android cell phones on the
spot and at the time of discovery, that is after we stopped laughing and shaking our heads.
(if you notice weird colors on some images it is from a heater we were using to
help cure some areas)